Telephone attachment



l Aug. 10 1926. 1,595,896

. i. I EviNE 9 TELEPHONE ATTACHMENT Filed Sept. 3, 1925 'l Il" i iiufmiul. mnu f I l ||1 ab f WWII? v TOR ITNESS:

ATTORNEY PATENT IKEILEVINE, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERAEY.

' TELEPHONE ATTACHMENT.

Application led September 3, 1925. `Serial No. 54,324.

This invention relates to improvements in telephone attachments and more particularly .to a unit for casting a beam of light upon Another object ofthe invention is to provide a lamp and attaching means therefor,

which may be easily applied to, or removed from a telephone and which attaching means supports a battery for supplying current to the lamp and which is conveniently controlled by a switch'provided on the battery casing.

A further object of the inventipn is to provide an attachment of the type mentioned which is simple in construction, cheap of manufacture and strong and durable for the purpose intended.

lVith these and other objects in View, the inventionv resides in certain novel construction and combination and arrangement of parts, the essential features of which are hereinafter fully described, are particularly pointed out in the appended claims, and are illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in whichz# Figure 1 is a front elevation ot an automatic telephone with my invention applied thereto. n

Figure 2 is a perspective View o my attachment per se.

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view on they line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Retei'rin more particularly to the drawing, the reterence numeral 9designates my telephone attachment in its entirely, and 10 an automatic telephone which includes a base 11 upon which is mounted the phone dial 12 operable for securing the telephone number desired. Rising from the base 11 is a post or standard 13 and it is from this post that my attachment 9 is supported.

My attachment 9 includes a bracket 14 formed from a single piece of spring metal, bent upon itself midway between its ends to provide an eye 15 and yieldable clamping jaws 16, the tree ends of the material being curved outwardly for permitting the jaw to be easily engaged with the post 13 of the telephone. A. casing 17 is sup orted by the clamping ring or eye 15 and w ich houses a battery 18 for supplying current to an electric lam which will be hereinafter fully describe t :supported by the bracket and ldis osed such relation thereto to reiiect a Ihe casing 17 is closed at one end by a swinging cover 19, while the lower end of the casing is pr'ovided with a threaded socket 20. A switch 21 is mounted exteriorly of the casing and is of a construction similar to the type of switches used in connection with pocket flash lights, o a typealso used in ash lights. lt desired a set screw 22 may be threadedly mounted in the walls of the eye 15 for securely holding the casing therein, but it will be understood that the normal tendency of the. eye is to compress about the casing, which is suiiicient to support 'the casing and battery.

Depending from one ot the clamping jaws 16 is an arm 23 which supports a lamp socket 24 for receiving an electric lamp 25, protected by a suitable shade 26 tor directing the rays ot li ht in a downward direction. The arm 23 1s curved so as to throw the light :trom the lamp directly upon the dial 12 when the switch 21 is on". l desired, the lamp' maybe adjustably supported trom the bracket 14, but in View of the tact that telephones are' of a standard make, it is believ'ed that the lamp may be stationarily in eam light directly upon the dial.

The arm 23 is ot permit an electric wire 27 to pass therethrough for connection with the socket 24 and the tree end of the wire 27 carries a tixture plug 28 'for threading enga ement with the socket 20 in the lower end o? the battery casing and which electrically connects the battery with the lamp.

lilrom the foregoing description, it will be seen that my attachment .will provide a convenience for persons using telephones of the dial type, as it often occurs that a telephone is installed in a corner of the room where the lightis poor, or at night the telephone may be used without illuminating the entire room. 'When the battery 18 becomes dead the same may be lreadily removed by lifting thel cover 19 and withdrawin the same an substituting a fresh battery t eiefor.

What is claimed as new is .1. An attachment for telephones ot the dial'type comprising an attaching bracket `having spaced ieldable jaws and an eye,

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battery casing aving a socket in one en thereof, a set screw 'for removably support- .ing said battery casing within said eye, an

while the battery 18 is tubular construction to electric lamp supported by a tubular arm depending from said bracket for reecting a beam of light upon the dial of the telephone, a battery with said casing and electrically connected with said electric lamp by an electric cord passing through said tubular arm and having an attachment plug at its free end for reception in said socket for supplying current to said lamp, and a switch on said casing for controlling the flow of current to said electric lamp.

2. An attachment for telephones comprising; a bracket formed of a single piece of springy material and bent to provide a compressible eye for removably supporting a `tubular casing, the free ends of said material being spaced to provide clampinfr jaws for engagement with a support, a tlmlar arm depending from one of said jaws through which an electric cord is adapted to pass, and an electric lamp supported by said arm.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

IKE LEVINE. 

